Associate Strategy Director Strategy

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Hanover Full time

As an Associate Strategy Director your role is to bring clarity to the complex. You will plan, guide, and oversee the work of the team, and be ready to provide counsel and robust strategic advice to clients and teams across public affairs, public relations, corporate and consumer communications as well as on creative consumer/ integrated campaigns. You will need to have had experience managing junior strategists, analysts and/ or researchers, as you will be supporting with the day-to-day management of the team.

You will be responsible for helping to ensure that the business is delivering transformative strategies - informed by solid evidence and data driven insights - to our clients always keeping an eye on business impact and the ultimate business objective, as well as the context in which our clients operate and the wider societal impact of our work with them.

You will be expected to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment that has been designed to foster creative thinking, and you will be expected to always be a champion of strategic and creative thinking to be comfortable to constructively challenge and be challenged by some of the brightest minds in the industry.

You will be reporting into the Senior Director for Strategy & Insights, acting as an advisor and helping to lead and grow the team.

**The Team**

We are a team of strategists with a deep passion for data and creativity and we sit at the heart of the business acting as a strategic planning function designed to empower and enable teams to unlock strategic and creative thinking - based on solid evidence, data-driven insights, and compelling narratives.

We work with the latest technologies, research methods, strategic frameworks, and tried and tested creative ideation models - and we routinely train the team and wider business to ensure we stay up to date with these.

We combine this with our teams’ specialist knowledge, sector and stakeholder intelligence to ensure we deliver transformative strategies for our clients.

We work with every team across corporate, advocacy/ public affairs and international relations, healthcare communication and market access, consumer and creative communications.

We support the Group across geographies too from London, Dublin, Brussels, Abu Dhabi and Dubai - and we work closely with our partners in the ecosystem and the Avenir Group.

**Requirements**:

- Understand the client’s audiences, objectives, and priorities and business imperatives, and lead the definition of clever and inspiring strategic and creative solutions to meet these needs
- Provide strategic direction on public affairs and corporate communications initiatives, identifying the problem statement, key value proposition/ edge, consumer/ stakeholder needs, and mapping out a series of compelling narratives and creative routes to address the brief
- Identify key opportunities to drive client value and collaborate with clients and client teams to bring them to life, including designing new methodologies and frameworks where possible - earn the trust of clients and build strong relationships with them
- Work with teams including corporate consultants, public affairs specialists and creatives to deliver strategies, to sense-check messaging and creative outputs against the brief and to champion creativity
- Work with technology and research partners effectively from scoping and design, to briefing and managing the solution delivery and collaboration efficiently
- Oversee the design, project management and delivery of qualitative and quantitative research and/ or digital analytics plans to meet client and team needs
- Confidently present research and analysis findings, insights and strategic recommendation to clients, and potential clients at senior levels
- Plan and facilitate client workshops be they creative brainstorms or corporate strategy workshops
- Manage the development and performance of junior and midweight strategists, analysts and researchers, including mentoring and providing training and support as needed taking charge of major projects
- Communicate effectively with key internal and external stakeholders and craft compelling narratives in presentations to clients
- Own your area of strategy and become the go-to person in the agency for that work
- Be proactive, provoke debate, and identify and drive the agenda for the future (by always staying up to date with news, politics, consumer and societal trends, etc.)

**SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE**
- Have research/ analytics experience and a point of view on the role of data and analytics in strategic planning and creative concepting and execution
- Have strong experience in strategic planning from brief interrogation, to brainstorm facilitation and writing compelling strategy arguments or creative briefs in at least one area of strategy
- Have experience (and maybe training too) in campaign effectiveness / measurement, be mindful about our ability to prove the solutions we present to cl

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